Hindustan Times
Every year, as India celebrates Independence Day, there is one hero who escapes our attention. Today, on India’s 65 I-Day celebrations, a minute of deep silence — Silence — on the 140th birth anniversary of freedom fighter and spiritual guru Sri Aurobindo, whose words, ideas and actions will outlive history. Read more
(25 votes, average: 4.64 out of 5)
Loading ...Posted by Gautam Chikermane on Wednesday, August 15, 2012 at 8:19 pm
Filed under India, religion · Tagged Bande Mataram, communism, conservatism, Cutting the Edge, democracy, Gautam Chikermane, Gita, hindustan times, Independence Day, Karmayogin, liberalism, news, Savitri, self-determination, socialism and capitalism, Sri Aurobindo, War, yoga
How silly of me, how naïve! All this while I was thinking that the practical ban — not a legal one, please note — on Peter Heehs’s biography of Sri Aurobindo was because a few people felt he “denigrated” this great poet-seer. Read more
(22 votes, average: 4.18 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Gautam Chikermane on Wednesday, August 8, 2012 at 9:07 pm
Filed under India · Tagged Ashram, Gautam Chikermane, hindustan times, news, Park Guest House, Peter Heehs, poet-seer, political activist, real estate, spiritual leader, Sri Aurobindo, The Lives of Sri Aurobindo, TN Chaturvedi
We banned Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses, and provided the moral justification for a barbaric fatwa on his head by Iran’s then spiritual leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. Read more
(40 votes, average: 3.98 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Gautam Chikermane on Wednesday, February 22, 2012 at 9:25 pm
Filed under religion · Tagged Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Bajrang Dal, Gautam Chikermane, Heehs, India, Iran, Jaipur Literature Festival, Meenaxi: A Tale of Three Cities, MF Husain, Orissa, Pondicherry, Qatar, Salman Rushdie, Sri Aurobindo, Sri Aurobindo Ashram, The Satanic Verses
Finally, it looks like excellent packaging to an ongoing scientific quest that began in 1905 with Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity and its adjunct, 10 years later, in the form of the general theory of relativity. Read more
(6 votes, average: 4.17 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Gautam Chikermane on Wednesday, December 14, 2011 at 8:18 pm
Filed under Research · Tagged Albert Einstein, CERN, Gautam Chikermane, God particle, Higgs boson, hindustantimes, Just Fith, Leon Lederman, National Geographic, Piero Scaruffi, Sri Aurobindo
